Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 129



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Offering a Tribute, Grand Wizard Episode 129.

What ran away [3]

A few days later.

Crash! Sigh!

“Peter! Are you okay?”

“!!”

Peter nodded.

In front of him, a scared Liam was blocking the enemy’s attack.

It was a goblin that attacked the carriage.

There were seven goblins that attacked the carriage.

There were five in the front and two in the rear.

Of course, the rearguard died immediately.

“Cool chili peppers.”

Lonobe, who was bleeding widely, immediately found the rearguard and killed them, while Benny cut down two of the frontline men at once and killed one by shooting an arrow.

Two of them rushed at Liam and Peter, and Liam blocked the goblin holding the hatchet with his shield and pushed it away, and struck back the goblin stabbing with a dagger with his own sword.

While Benny is leading the protest.

Ronobe stopped this.

“Just leave it for a moment.”

It was then.

“Ugh, wow!”

Peter used magic.

A rug rose from behind Liam and covered the goblin.

“good!”

Meanwhile, Liam stabbed the goblin buried in the dirt with his sword and finished it off.

It was a very good combination.

‘The soil on the ground is hardened and used to make it look like leather.’

It was a miracle that could be used in a variety of ways, depending on how it was used: it could be used as a weapon or for defense. Right now, Peter is young and has limited knowledge, so he can’t use it properly, but as Horoi said, he has talent.

‘The fact that he can use magic at such a young age shows that he is quite talented.’

It is said that most famous wizards began practicing magic at a young age. Even Anna’s beloved Elysia discovered magic at an older age than Peter.

I have high expectations for Peter.

In the future, when Ronobe has his own territory. Wouldn’t Peter be a very strong bulwark protecting Hopper’s territory? Moreover, since he cannot speak, Ronobe’s strict adherence to secrets is certain.

He was truly a great talent.

“Baron June. “Peter is tired of that.”

Still, I’m still young, so maybe it was a bit harsh?

I had to pee.

“Isn’t there a valley nearby? “Wash me.”

“Me?”

“Then should I do it? “Aren’t you out of your mind?”

“Oh, no. let’s go. Peter.”

It may be a little harsh, but it has to be done. Because Ronobe cannot treat Peter with just good intentions.

‘We need to do our part quickly.’

The Empire’s wizard has died.

To the outside world, it is known that he is Gaisha’s credit and Ronobe is a sidekick, but there are always people who know the truth.

‘If they come in looking for me, it would be better to have at least a little bit of power.’

Since you never know when that time will come, it is better to gather powerful people around you.

While Liam and Peter went to do the laundry, Benny searched the goblin’s arms.

Nothing in particular came out.

It was nothing more than weapons and dirty cloths that were vague and crude for human use.

“Why are you taking that?”

“I heard that goblin noses are sold.”

“nose?”

“huh. I heard there are wizards who pay for things like this. “That’s why they sold it.”

“oh…”

Well, you don’t necessarily have to pay for magic with your own body.

‘It seems like a tribute.’

Benny does it, but Ronobe can’t help but do it.

‘I’m a noble…’

I can’t believe I have to cut off the nose of this filthy monster! I used to be a guy who pooped my pants, but not anymore. The clothes belonged to nobles, and because they kept their hands and feet clean, they did not want to touch anything dirty.

“Wow, it’s dirty.”

“I’ll do it.”

“… That can’t be possible.”

There were only a few to begin with.

I cut off the noses of seven animals and searched their bodies for any strange stones, but as expected, there were none.

“Is the horse okay?”

“I got hurt a little, but this is it.”

Although he was hit by an arrow, the wound was not deep because the goblin’s arrow itself was trash. It wasn’t stuck, it bounced off and was slightly torn. At this level, if you treat it with a potion, it will heal quickly, so it’s okay.

“I guess the road is a bit rough from here. “When you see a goblin appear.”

“hmm.”

Goblins are monsters you only see if you are unlucky. But why?

It didn’t feel very good.

‘The magic of the remaining hair is…’

Falling flower petals and waves of sound.

The former is a wind blade that left a large scar on Ronobe’s back, and the latter is a sound magic that causes a large explosion. If even one of them falls into the hands of a goblin, it becomes quite annoying.

“It will be difficult if a second Carancal appears.”

Ronobe whistled.

Then a crow nearby flew over and sat on the carriage.

“Don’t you think you’ve gotten a little bigger?”

“well. “I don’t know… I guess so?”

The strange stones are ground into powder and given along with pieces of meat. It’s given in very small amounts and it hasn’t been long since I started giving it, so I’m not sure yet.

‘Because Benny has good eyes. ‘Maybe it’s true.’

Now that I think about it, it seems like the color has improved compared to before.

“Was there anything nearby?”

-There was none! There was none! Caw!

The sound is also quite loud.

Uselessly.

“Why don’t you be quiet? “Where is this bastard making noise?”

-It is unfair! It is unfair! Caw!

“Noisy guy.”

Let’s throw a piece of meat with a little bit of stone powder in it, and boom! And take it.

“I’m walking around around here and watching closely to see if there’s anyone suspicious.”

-Caw!

I clicked my tongue as I looked at the flying one-eye.

“Fuel efficiency is not good…”

There aren’t many strange stones, but they eat a lot. It felt like a waste every time I saw it. Since he is a guy with no eyes, I wonder if it is right for him to invest like this. But he couldn’t stop once he had already started.

‘That’s what a familiar is.’

Growing with the distant future in mind!

“I’m home.”

“Oh, you should eat this too.”

It was the same with Liam.

One-eyed and Liam.

To Ronobe, both were similar.

Liam frowned as he felt something strange staring at him, but there was no other option.

I took the beef jerky and ate it, chewing it hard.

“The horse is also injured, so let’s spend some time sleeping here today.”

“yes!”

No need for firewood. All you have to do is add oil and make a fire.

Place a pot on top of it and use the ‘coolness of eating blood’ to make ice, then melt it again to make water and pour it out.

“Magic is convenient.”

“So it’s not a miracle.”

After lighting a fire and waiting for a while, Benny caught a few rabbits and squirrels.

“There are few animals nearby. “I guess it’s because of the goblins.”

It seems like he wanted to catch a bigger animal. Benny still had some food, but Benny’s wish was to hunt whenever possible, just in case.

Now that he’s said that, he seems to be a little more greedy for his prey. Ronobe and Liam made a fuss as if it was okay.

“I can’t believe you caught a rabbit and a squirrel in this short period of time. “As expected, you learned a lot from me.”

“You are great.”

“…!!”

Peter nodded as if he also agreed and helped out. As everyone praised, Benny tried to control the corners of his mouth that rose and turned his head.

I don’t know whose wife it was, but she was cute.

“If you’re jealous, get married too.”

“I never said I was jealous.”

“So you’re saying you’re not jealous? “You arrogant bastard… how dare you insult Benny?”

“I never did that! And I have no intention of getting married until I become a knight.”

“hmm! It’s a great mindset. As expected, Hopper, the aspiring knight chosen by Baron June. “It’s great!”

“…”

After finishing his meal, Liam went straight to a corner of the forest and swung his sword.

Benny maintained his sword and bow, and Peter practiced writing and erasing the words he had learned from Ronobe on the floor. It seemed like he felt something different after meeting the goblin today.

As we each had our own time, Ronobe also spent some time checking his magic.

I spent some time using drift ice, thread, and partial transformation.

As for magic training, it was better to be able to use it sooner and more reliably if there were no special events.

In Ronobe’s case, it would have been nice to have used partial transformation in a more diverse way. This was a very good influence from my previous training in puppetry. By making and moving the figure by part, I was able to create a more clear image of the partial transformation. Although I am not yet familiar with it, I have a clear image of the partial transformation.

Time would tell the rest.

‘Blind arrow, poison.’

Even from such things, people die.

Gaisha also died from poison.

People die very easily. Even great wizards die of nonsense.

Ronobe recalled that. This was also the reason for the obsession with partial transformation. No matter how quickly you can use magic, no one can stop an arrow coming from an unknown source.

That’s why Ronobe keeps Liam by his side and why he has Peter as his disciple.

‘Until I can stop such things.’

Someone who will stop it for you.

Or, you need someone to welcome you.

It’s a cruel thing to say, but it can’t be helped.

Because Ronobe is a person whose life is most important to him.

‘It’s better to stop before you get hit than to not care even if you get hit.’

So what is the way to block arrows or stones flying from a distance? Basically, what Ronobe can do is a ‘cool oil slick’.

The cool oil film has the hardness to prevent most damage.

But the drawbacks are also clear.

‘It was like that when fighting Cloud.’

The guy recognized the hardness of the oil slick at a glance and turned the ground over, shaking Ronobe with the oil slick itself. Thanks to that, he wasn’t rolled around like a hamster in a ball.

Moreover, oil slick is not a magic that can be used faster than an arrow.

It takes some time.

The best is to be protected by a vanguard who will protect you until you use magic. A wizard is most vulnerable before and after using magic.

But Ronobe is different from other wizards. If you become a wizard, you should be strong even without the protection of a lineman.

Cloud was like that.

‘Cloud and I are similar.’

This is because a variety of magic can be used. I know that there are quite a few people like Gaisha who pay multiple prices and use two types of magic as one, but they cannot use magic with eight different textures.

Eight magic without cost.

This is also the reason why Ronobe is inevitably stronger than other magicians.

‘The attack power is still sufficient.’

Oil and cold.

Even with these two and transformation magic, the attack power is more than enough.

Even Cloud could not do anything about the strength of Ronobe’s magic. So now what Ronobe needs to train is his magic casting speed and defense.

Carancal was powerful without needing to defend itself, but that was only possible because there were no allies around.

Since everything around you explodes, of course there is no reason to defend yourself.

But not Ronobe.

This person has a lot to protect.

So, I had to learn magic that could protect me from blind arrows or sniping.

‘The coolness of eating blood is slow.’

The cold itself induces blood, attracts moisture in the air, and freezes it.

It has to be slow.

If you saw the arrow with your own eyes, you would have been hit before you even had a chance to cast magic.

So partial transformation is good.

It doesn’t matter if it’s true.

But what if the arrow is poisoned? That’s a bit tricky.

Any attack that breaks through transformation and inflicts wounds is bound to be vulnerable to poison.

Gaisha was also poisoned.

Ronobe also dies if poisoned.

So it’s best to avoid getting hit as much as possible.

So how could it not be right? Is it possible to automatically defend yourself before you get hit?

Defend even what you are not aware of.

Is there no magic or miracle like that?

My thoughts continued to linger.

But the answer did not come easily.

Ronobe looked at Benny.

“…?!”

Benny felt Ronobe’s sinister gaze and was a little embarrassed.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t use the method of becoming a wise man. This was a wilderness area, and you never knew when a goblin might pop out.

I couldn’t do it.

Ronobe called Yonterion.

He spit out the answer right away.

[It’s a stone head. Have you forgotten what you have?]

“… yes.”

[!]

To admit it obediently without refutation.

Yonterion was quite surprised.

[You’ve grown…]

“Don’t be moved by strange things. What is it? so.”

[There are bubbles, right? As far as I know, I heard that Caterpillar gave it away, so why aren’t you thinking of taking advantage of it?]

“ah…”

I had forgotten about it.

But Ronobe refuted.

“Do bubbles stop arrows?”

[That’s up to you. How about asking him rather than me?]

Yonterion swallowed the soul in his arms and disappeared. As Yonterion said, Ronobe called Caterpillar and asked.

“Can you block arrows with water bubbles?”

[Yes… the sword also blocks… rather than blocking… it becomes useless…]

“What do you mean?”

Caterpillar created its own bubble.

[Hit me.]

Ronobe hit the foam with his fist.

Sigh! I went in.

But I couldn’t go any further than that.

It was not as solid as a shield, but as resistant as water. If it goes beyond a certain point, the kinetic energy is slowed down by the resistance created by the bubbles.

That was just a waste of time.

[It depends on how you use the bubbles… if you want to block arrows…]

The caterpillar created large water droplets from its body and trapped the flying arrows.

“oh…”

[Water bubbles can be made so small that they are invisible… or they can be made large… When they are small they become hard and when they become large they become soft… but they can be trapped.]

Caterpillar said that it created this foam and used the thread to often get its enemies into trouble.

[Since you use cold energy… wouldn’t it be okay to freeze the bubbles…?]

“omg! “That way!!”

The caterpillar retreats.

As soon as Ronobe opened his eyes, he tested his magic by creating bubbles.

Bubbles. In the end, it is a bubble.

The shape was similar to the bubbles that appear when you fart in water. However, according to Ronobe’s will, it changed into water droplets as small as millet or larger than the palm of one’s hand. It was a magic that seemed to have a variety of uses depending on how it was used. However, I had no idea how to use it effectively.

“Benny.”

“huh.”

First of all, we started by preventing people from throwing rocks.

If the density of the foam was high, it would easily bounce off a rock, but if the density was made a little lower, the rock would jump into the foam! It broke through. Ronobe tested a few more things and even asked me to shoot an arrow.

“Dangerous.”

“I think this will be okay.”

Since they were so strongly against it, I had no choice but to force them to throw stones. If you hit the stone the knight throws incorrectly, you will die.

It’s not as dangerous as an arrow, but it will cause some bruising. When I told him to throw the stone hard, Benny only then gave his consent.

Liquid-!

The sound of stones flying was very scary.

“Wow!”

Even though I created bubbles, I flinched in surprise. However, the stone only dug into the foam and could not reach it.

“Phew…”

Confidence in bubbles has increased more than expected. It seemed like it could easily block arrows at this level.

However, if there is something that is somewhat disappointing.

‘You can’t control bubbles.’

It is only possible to create bubbles from the body. It is impossible to move the bubble itself freely.

This is because the water bubbles themselves are one of the things produced by the caterpillar’s body. Just as a caterpillar can create bubbles, a caterpillar could do so, but could not wield or control it any further than that.

Therefore, Ronobe cannot control the bubbles separately. That was disappointing.

And above all.

‘I don’t feel like it.’

The bubbles weren’t that cool.

It wasn’t something a guy who spewed strings out of his mouth would say, but the taste was important.

And bubbles are ultimately bubbles.

It does not automatically block arrows flying from behind the head.

‘Is there no such thing as automatic AI?’

When people run, they want to walk, when they walk, they want to sit, and when they sit, they want to lie down.

Ronobe was like that too. He wanted to become more comfortable by using the convenience of magic twice as much as others. I wanted to be safer. Just as human laziness created the remote control, Lonobe also wanted to create something that automatically protects itself with the press of a button.

Ronobe created oil in his right hand and bubbles in his left hand.

“How can these two not be used together?”

Drift ice was created by mixing water and cold air.

So what happens if we mix water bubbles and oil this time to create oil bubbles? But unfortunately, this thought had no choice but to remain just a thought.

-Caw! Caw! Caw!

One-eyed cried loudly.

It was said that there was an enemy nearby.

“Are you a goblin?”

Maybe it was a bandit.

Most of Vlad’s soldiers died, but I heard that quite a few of them ran away and became bandits.

“Peter. Protect your surroundings with magic. “We will do the killing.”

The enemy’s attacks continued, starting with Liam who came running out in a huff.

Of course there was nothing to worry about.

Swish, ting! Ronobe was a sharpshooter who could hit a flying arrow with his own arrow and knock it down, and more than anything else.

“You little bastard who wants to kill a pepper, come first.”

Ronobe was the wizard who defeated Wizard.

There was nothing to worry about whether it was bandits or goblins.

Kwa-ga-ga-ga-ga-!!

“uh?”

That was until the explosion occurred.

‘Waves of sound?’

Ronobe immediately used water bubbles.

Soon, a huge shock exploded like a flood.